InnovationScientist

About TandemLaunch TandemLaunch is a unique Canadian venture studio. Since 2010, we've created 30+ deep-tech ventures with a combined portfolio value exceeding $700M. We focus on commercializing innovations in consumer electronics, hardware-enabled technologies, machine learning, and embedded systems, working directly with researchers from major university labs. About the Role We're hiring an Innovation Scientist to help turn early-stage university research into investable companies. Working alongside founders and TandemLaunch executives, you'll own the narrative and external positioning for 1-2 new ventures per year from pre-incorporation through their first institutional round — shaping their demo storyline, customer and investor materials, and co-leading the search for each venture's founding CEO. This role will shape the ventures we capitalize and how they're positioned in the market and investors. What You’ll Do Own the pitch storyline for each venture — the live narrative we use with investors and strategic partners, investor days, and customer meetings. Drive timelines, manage milestones, and ensure each gate is hit. Craft customer and investor-facing materials — executive summaries, white papers, pitch decks, demo videos — working directly with researchers to translate deep tech into "why now" and "who cares." Co-lead the founding CEO search for each new venture alongside TandemLaunch executives. You'll source through TandemLaunch's 15-year-deep operator network, screen for venture-specific fit, and shepherd the hiring process through. By year two, you'll have helped place 2-3 founding CEOs. Contribute to portfolio-wide initiatives (investor events, demo days, pitch coaching) as needed. What We’re Looking For Technical fluency sufficient to hold a credible conversation with hardware engineers, ML researchers, and physicists. We typically see this come from a PhD in engineering or physics — but a research-track MSc plus deep-tech industry experience, or an en